173,213 "Unknowns"

People digging cellars and plowing fields in France and Belgium turned up, last year, the remains of 3,361 British soldiers. Edward of Wales as Honorary President of the Imperial War Graves Commission saw to it that these heroes, long since given up for lost, were reverently interred in eleven British cemeteries. Last week the I. W. G. C., tireless, diligent and unsung, published its ninth annual report, a monument to the labors of its Permanent Vice-chairman, Major General Sir Fabian Ware.

Presented with a list of 1,081,952 lost soldiers in 1919, the Commission has done so well that today the whereabouts of all but 326,256 are known. Corpses "identified and buried" total 582,783, while only 173,213 have had to be interred as "unknown soldiers." Especially tasteful has been the advice of Artistic Adviser Sir Frederic Kenyon, in collaboration with seven Principal Architects, five of whom are knights.